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Measuring the catch

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Measuring the catch

In this 1931 photograph, published in The New Zealand traveller, a woman doles out her whitebait catch at the Kaituna River in the Bay of Plenty. In the era before plastic buckets, whitebait were often stored in old kerosene tins.

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Carl Walrond, Whitebait and whitebaiting – History and conservation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11698/measuring-the-catch (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.